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The Orlando Fire Department (OFD) in Florida has a mystery on its hands. A red Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray was found partially submerged in a pond.

No one was found in the water or inside the Corvette. OFD has no idea how it got there or why it hasn’t been claimed.

Orlando Fire Department dive crews retrieved the mysteriously abandoned supercar from the pond with the assistance of Orange County Fire Rescue. After pulling the Corvette from the water, investigators found no evidence of its owner inside the vehicle.

The passenger window was rolled down, and the front fascia appears to be cracked. The Corvette has a Z51 wing on the rear, but it’s just a Stingray and not a ZR1. That’s about it.

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Orlando Fire Department

Whoever owned the Vette did have a very nice car at one time. The C8 has a 6.2-liter V8 producing 490 horsepower and 470 lb-ft of torque. That kind of power allowed the Stingray to accelerate from 0-60 in 2.8 seconds and run the quarter-mile in 11.1 seconds. Now though? Not so much, at least in this case.

Speculation on how the car ended up in the Florida pond has run rampant on social media

On the Orlando Fire Department’s Facebook post about the discovery and recovery of the C8 Corvette Stingray, many have speculated about how it wound up in the water.

“Everyone keeps saying stolen or insurance fraud, but I think it’s a rental and they crashed and then went ‘oh s—‘ and left,” one person suggested.

“Stolen joyride into the lake, then abandoned it,” read another guess.

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Orlando Fire Department

“Someone didn’t want those payments,” another person wrote, while another comment suggested, “Someone dodged a DUI.”

“When you have more car than you have driving skill,” joked another Facebook user.

“Dry it off and bring it to me,” someone else wrote, still wanting the car, which starts at around $70,000 for the base model.

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